The East Coast of Africa was a complicated patchwork of ... Zanzibar a Protectorate seeking to rule indirectly through the Omani Arabs. Zanzibar's relationship with the mainland, on the one ...
The battle of titans involving Portuguese and Omani Arabs was fought between 1696 ... In his book The Portuguese Period in East Africa, Justus Strandes says on December 12, 1698, the sick captain ...